There’s probably one-percent of the population that has reached maximum maturity at age 15, and will never advance much past that point. I mean that in the negative sense.
You are being far too conservative in your assessment, methinks.
I don’t know. I am starting to realize I believed in pretty childish things until very recently and I’m 65. Foolish things like “Our Country”.
Mother went to work at a full-time adult job at 14 to support her family when her father died. This was in 1924.
Henry V, “Henry’s first battle [before he was king] was not against the French, but the English. At Shrewsbury on 21 July 1403 the 16-year-old Henry, Prince of Wales, lined up alongside his father to face the forces of the rebel lord, Henry Percy.
Henry V’s first battle (before he was king) was not against the French, but the English. (Photo by Mansell/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Henry V’s first battle (before he was king) was not against the French, but the English. (Photo by Mansell/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
At Shrewsbury Henry led his forces well, and made a major contribution to the victory. In the course of the battle, however, he was shot in the face by an arrow that entered below his eye, missed both brain and spinal cord and stuck in the bone at the back of the skull. To remove the embedded arrowhead, special tongs had to be designed, made and carefully inserted nearly six inches into the wound to grip and extract the metal.”
https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/things-you-didnt-know-facts-henry-v-battle-agincourt-shakespeare-hundred-years-war-france/
Sure, these are exemplery people, but the coddling and ridiculous measures taken today to protect young adults from reality and their own foolishness has led to creating a useless group of people.
I have a niece that is 31 going on 15. Unfortunately she recently gave birth to the third generation of the same.
I may be an adult, but I refuse to grow up.